A review by janey
The Demon-Haunted World: Science as a Candle in the Dark by Carl Sagan

3.0

I'm sorry to say that I was disappointed. While everything that Sagan writes is true,I found his examples to be of an earlier, more innocent time, when we were faced with people who believed in ghosts or alien abduction rather than people who have been tricked into believing in a worldwide conspiracy specifically aimed at harming them. He's probably right in the respect that more science in school would help (although I do think that our current danger primarily comprises people who were home schooled by parents who were not at all prepared for it), but I think his criticism of Star Trek was a bridge too far. It seems that he missed the part about distant planets being an allegory for Earth while he was too busy lecturing us on why Spock could not exist.